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  1. Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×3.80 72 | 847 points by aamederen 22 hours ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores (engadget.com)
    ×4.79 63 | 212 points by _____k 14 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral (bbc.com)
    ×3.24 58 | 182 points by tartoran 13 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Does that use a lot of energy? (hannahritchie.github.io)
    ×2.29 52 #77 | 210 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The Xkcd thing, now interactive (p5js.org)
    ×5.08 39 | 1295 points by memalign 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals (experimental-history.com)
    ×3.00 39 #70 | 366 points by sito42 18 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. MacBook Neo (apple.com)
    ×6.10 37 | 188 points by meetpateltech 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Bet on German Train Delays (bahn.bet)
    ×3.40 36 | 286 points by indiantinker 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services (neilzone.co.uk)
    ×3.05 34 | 963 points by speckx 1 day ago | 613 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction (retractionwatch.com)
    ×2.26 35 | 169 points by Tomte 18 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config (joshua.hu)
    ×2.28 31 #54 | 303 points by mmsc 15 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability (ifixit.com)
    ×5.49 29 | 490 points by wrxd 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. An interactive map of Flock Cams (deflock.org)
    ×3.16 31 #45 | 575 points by anjel 14 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello (rfc-editor.org)
    ×1.54 26 #86 | 293 points by P_qRs 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Sam Altman admits OpenAI can't control Pentagon's use of AI (theguardian.com)
    ×4.30 48 | 7 points by iamflimflam1 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max (apple.com)
    ×2.60 23 #84 | 848 points by scrlk 1 day ago | 936 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Agentic Engineering Patterns (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.90 22 #71 | 513 points by r4um 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents (poehnelt.com)
    ×2.59 28 #43 | 86 points by justinwp 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.55 21 #47 | 1231 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 520 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model (microsoft.com)
    ×3.65 35 #75 | 8 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns (svd.se)
    ×3.92 17 #87 | 1411 points by sandbach 2 days ago | 800 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.63 21 #34 | 165 points by jnord 7 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments (nature.com)
    ×2.02 17 | 102 points by jacquesm 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. "Microsoft Clairty" Isn't Microsoft Clarity: Deobfuscating Ad Fraud Script (cside.com)
    ×2.23 32 | 4 points by swijck 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Iran says targeted AWS Data Centers for support of U.S. military (cnbc.com)
    ×2.98 17 #65 | 24 points by johnbarron 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Gulf insurance costs soar 12-fold despite US president's guarantee (ft.com)
    ×2.32 26 | 4 points by divbzero 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? (venturebeat.com)
    ×2.50 13 | 136 points by GTP 20 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’ (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.49 13 #18 | 564 points by SilverElfin 9 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. We don't need continual learning for AGI. What top labs are currently doing
    ×1.05 41 | 3 points by kok14 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. No Silver Bullet [pdf] (dartmouth.edu)
    ×2.32 47 | 3 points by abrbhat 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. MacBook Neo (apple.com)
    ×6.72 9 #16 | 1779 points by dm 19 hours ago | 2089 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.33 7 | 508 points by pcdavid 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Major airline bans 'barebeaters' across all 24 daily flights from UK airports (metro.co.uk)
    ×2.81 22 #42 | 7 points by sieste 50 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time (cbc.ca)
    ×3.99 6 #89 | 1158 points by ireflect 2 days ago | 560 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. You Just Reveived (dylan.gr)
    ×2.13 8 #14 | 160 points by djnaraps 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe (bbc.com)
    ×2.55 6 #72 | 412 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Chaos and Dystopian news for the dead internet survivors (fubardaily.com)
    ×1.40 7 #28 | 96 points by anonnona8878 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. No exit – an AI doomsday WebGL scroll experience (framer.ai)
    ×1.54 12 | 3 points by fredmoon 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign (newrepublic.com)
    ×5.39 14 #17 | 31 points by TrackerFF 49 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. No right to relicense this project (github.com/chardet)
    ×5.27 8 #9 | 98 points by robin_reala 1 hour ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project (twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen)
    ×2.94 3 | 521 points by devinitely 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses recordings aren't private (mashable.com)
    ×1.73 4 | 3 points by ivell 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×3.64 2 | 228 points by SerCe 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???